Terms of Service

last updated March 5 2025

last updated March 5, 2025

By creating a Sapphic Savvy account, these terms will automatically apply to you – therefore it’s important to read them carefully before creating an account. We are offering you this app to use for your own personal use without cost, but you should be aware that you’re not allowed to copy, or modify the app, any part of the app, or our trademarks in any way. You’re not allowed to attempt to extract the source code of the app, and you also shouldn’t try to translate the app into other languages or make derivative versions. The app itself, and all of the trademarks, copyright, database rights and other intellectual property rights related to it, still belong to the Sapphic Savvy team. The Sapphic Savvy app stores and processes personal data that you have provided to us so that you can participate in a virtual community of Sapphics and take part in a social competition. Acceptable use of the Sapphic Savvy application, as well as rules and regulations regarding the app’s competition are detailed below. Data collected and stored by the app are detailed in the privacy policy that follows. It’s your responsibility to keep your phone and access to the app secure. We therefore recommend that you do not jailbreak or root your phone, which is the process of removing software restrictions and limitations imposed by the official operating system of your device. It could make your phone vulnerable to malware/viruses/malicious programs, compromise your phone’s security features and it could result in the Sapphic Savvy app not working properly or at all.

ACCEPTABLE USE

Sapphic Savvy offers a fun way to challenge Sapphic stereotypes, test your community knowledge, increase visibility, and access resources to support health and well-being. To use the Sapphic Savvy application you must sign-up with a mobile telephone number, identify as a Sapphic (e.g., a lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, queer woman or non-man), be 18 years of age or older, and reside in the United States. By providing your mobile phone number at signup, you grant us permission to send you a verification code via text-message. Once verified, you will use this phone number to login to the app. Additional text messages will only be sent to you in order to reset your password in the event you forget it and potentially to invite take part in a user-feedback study aimed at evaluating and improving the app, should you be randomly selected for an invite. Text messages will not be sent to you for promotional purposes nor will your phone number be shared with 3rd parties. You may opt out of text messages at any time by replying “stop”. To be eligible for monetary prizes to be awarded to the competition’s top scorers, you must also provide a valid email address at which you can receive a prepaid virtual visa gift card. Monthly emails recapping competition results, winners, and support resources will also be sent to the email address you provide. Your email address will not be shared with 3rd parties under any circumstances. You may opt out of emails from Sapphic Savvy using the unsubscribe link provided in each. However, we will not be able to contact unsubscribed users for prize purposes and any prizes won by users we are unable to reach via email will be awarded to the next highest scorer.

COMPETITION DETAILS & TOP SCORER PRIZES

The goal in Sapphic Savvy is to accumulate as many points as possible in each weekly quarter and across the quarters comprising each month (i.e., set). You can earn points in each quarter by guessing and betting on the attitudes and behaviors of other users in your sexual identity and age-group and then reporting on your own attitudes and behaviors. At the end of each weekly quarter on Saturday (9am PST), the app crunches the numbers and users earn points based on the accuracy of their guesses about other users and the number of points they wagered. Each week, a virtual Visa gift card prepaid in the amount of $100 will be awarded to the user who scores the most points that quarter. In the event of a tie, the top scorer who placed their bets earliest during the quarter will be awarded the cash prize. Each month (after every 4 quarters): a prize taking the form of a $500 virtual Visa giftcard will be awarded to the user who scores the most points over 4 quarters. Smaller e-gift card prizes for 2nd and 3rd place runners up will also be awarded each set. You can visit the Standings section of the app to view leaderboards of the Top 100 scorers for the previous quarter and current set.

USE OF BASIC APP DATA FOR RESEARCH PURPOSES

Basic app data includes users’ public profile information, responses to quarter questions, scores, and other derivative data automatically logged by Sapphic Savvy’s servers including users’ device ID and operating system version, and number of: logins, quarters completed; results viewed, and visits to other areas of the app (e.g., Support Library, Synthesis Blog, and Live Chat) as well as any ratings of the app that users provide to the app store. The Sapphic Savvy team reserves the right to use this data, de-identified (profile photos, usernames, and phone numbers removed) and aggregated across users (all users lumped together so that we are analyzing group averages), for research purposes. Internal analysis of this data allows the Sapphic Savvy team to improve the user experience across different devices and operating systems, identify the competition’s hardest and easiest guess questions, determine the most interesting questions based on average number of results views, identify the characteristics of users most and least active in the app, as well as those liking the app the most and least. Analysis of this data also allows the Sapphic Savvy team to make improvements to the app and gauge the impact of app changes and updates overtime. All data analysis and reporting for these purposes will focus on highlighting group trends rather than individual responses. By accepting this terms of service and privacy policy below and creating a Sapphic Savvy user account, you are granting the Sapphic Savvy team the ability to use your de-identified basic app data as defined above, aggregated with that of other users, for such research purposes.

RISKS AND BENEFITS

The risks associated with Sapphic Savvy app use are minimal. However, there is a potential for you to experience uncomfortable feelings due to the personal nature of some of the in-quarter questions. Questions may ask, for example, how often you get drunk, or whether you scissor. You may choose to skip sensitive questions without penalty. However, the app can only provide points, scores, and results corresponding to the questions you personally answer. You may also experience discomfort upon viewing results. For example, it may be distressing to learn that other Sapphics your age are drinking much less than you and exercising much more than you. It may also be disappointing when your guesses about other users are incorrect and/or upsetting if you fail to obtain a top score. However, the experience of answering incorrectly or scoring poorly is no different than what may be experienced while playing other games. Another area of potential risk lies in the app’s live chat area. It is possible that sensitive topics (sexual behavior, relationships) may be discussed that could make you feel embarrassed. However, these discussions will be no different in nature than those in groups on mainstream social media apps popular among Sapphics (Reddit, Tiktok, Discord, Facebook). To remedy any such discomfort experienced, you may choose to ignore results, discontinue your participation in the competition, or stop visiting the discussion forum area of the app. You can also visit the settings menu in the app to delete your user account and uninstall the app.  For some, participation in Sapphic Savvy may satisfy curiosities about Sapphic communities, increase feeling of belonging, or help to diminish harmful stereotypes. For others, learning about health and relationship behaviors of other Sapphics may benefit their own health behaviors and relationships. Others may simply find entertainment in the wagers, scoring, results, and virtual sapphic community and discussions supported by the app. The de-identified, aggregated, basic app data used for research purposes by the Sapphic Savvy team may also help shape future programming by the Sapphic psychologists who created the app, which in turn, may benefit your future well-being.

GROUNDS FOR DISQUALIFICATION & TERMINATION

Sapphic Savvy is designed for lesbian, bisexual, pansexual and queer-identified women and non-men living in the us. In effort to keep the game completely cis male and russian bot free, users may be disqualified from the competition and have their account terminated if they appear to clearly not be a sapphic residing in the us. Other grounds for disqualification and termination include being under 18 years of age, creating multiple accounts linked to different mobile numbers (in order to submit bets more than once each round), attempting to cheat by any other means, and making inappropriate or offensive posts in the chat. In the spirit of healthy competition, we ask that you keep the results you receive in the competition private. This means not sharing screenshots of any of the results you receive on social media or in private communication with friends until the competition ends. You may be disqualified if you violate this rule! Unless we tell you otherwise, upon any termination, (a) the rights granted to you in these terms will end; (b) you will be locked out of the app; (c) all of your account data will be deleted with the exception of your device ID. Your device ID will be used only to prevent you from creating new accounts in order to gain access to the app.

DATA USAGE

If you’re using the app outside of an area with Wi-Fi, you should remember that your terms of agreement with your mobile network provider will still apply. As a result, you may be charged by your mobile provider for the cost of data for the duration of the connection while accessing the app, or other third party charges. In using the app, you’re accepting responsibility for any such charges, including roaming data charges if you use the app outside of your home territory (i.e. region or country) without turning off data roaming. If you are not the bill payer for the device on which you’re using the app, please be aware that we assume that you have received permission from the bill payer for using the app.

APPLICATION UPDATES

The Sapphic Savvy team is committed to ensuring that the app is as useful and efficient as possible. For that reason, we reserve the right to make changes to the app at any time. At some point we may wish to update the app. The app is currently available on Android and IOS – the requirements for both systems (and for any additional systems we decide to extend the availability of the app to) may change, and you’ll need to download the updates if you want to keep using the app. We will try our best but cannot promise that updates always will remain relevant to you and/or work with the IOS/Android version that you have installed on your device.

Privacy Policy

last updated March 5, 2025

SAPPHIC SAVVY (“we” or “us” or “our”) respects the privacy of our users (“user” or “you”). This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our mobile application (the “Application”). Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY, PLEASE DO NOT ACCESS THE SAPPHIC SAVVY APPLICATION.

We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy at any time and for any reason. We will alert you about any changes by updating the “Last updated” date of this Privacy Policy.  You are encouraged to periodically review this Privacy Policy to stay informed of updates. You will be deemed to have been made aware of, will be subject to, and will be deemed to have accepted the changes in any revised Privacy Policy by your continued use of the Application after the date such revised Privacy Policy is posted. 

Note- This Privacy Policy does not apply to the third-party online/mobile store from which you install the Application. We are not responsible for any of the data collected by any such third party.

COLLECTION OF YOUR INFORMATION

We may collect information about you in a variety of ways. Much of the information collected via the Application depends on your actions and the permissions you grant or deny within the application.

DERIVATIVE DATA COLLECTED

            USER ACCOUNT DATA. Includes personally identifiable information that you voluntarily give to us when electing to create an account in Sapphic Savvy. This data includes your mobile phone number, email address, birthdate, and sexual identity, which are mandatory elements required to be eligible for top scorer prizes, personalize the competition, and format quarter screens for you. By providing your mobile phone number at signup, you grant us permission to send you a verification code via text-message. Once verified, you will use this phone number to login to the app. Additional text messages will only be sent to you in order to reset your password in the event you forget it and potentially to invite take part in a user-feedback study aimed at evaluating and improving the app (should you be randomly selected for an invite). Text messages will not be sent to you for promotional purposes nor will your phone number be shared with 3rd parties. You may opt out of text messages at any time by replying “STOP”. To be eligible for monetary prizes to be awarded to the competition’s top scorers, you must also provide a valid email address at which you can receive a prepaid virtual visa gift card. Monthly emails recapping competition results, winners, and support resources will also be sent to the email address you provide. Your email address will not be shared with 3rd parties under any circumstances. You may opt out of emails from Sapphic Savvy using the unsubscribe link provided in each. However, we will not be able to contact unsubscribed users for prize purposes and any prizes won by users we are unable to reach via email will be awarded to the next highest scorer. Neither your mobile phone number or will not be shared with 3rd parties under any circumstances. 

            PUBLIC PROFILE DATA. Your Sapphic Savvy public profile includes your chosen username, age group, sexual identity, and a profile photo of your choice. This information is mandatory as it is used to format quarter screens and customize questions to ask you specific sub-groups of users (e.g., questions ask lesbians in their 20’s about other lesbian users in their 20s). You may also choose to share your location in the US, be represented by a brief bio, and/or additional tags to describe you. All of the information you provide in your public profile will be visible to other authenticated users in the Sapphics area of the application and the photos and public profiles of other users will similarly be visible to you in this area. The image you upload to represent you can be a photograph of yourself, a bitmoji, a pet, whatever you wish. This photo will be shown in the competition’s leaderboard alongside your username and score in the event you are a top 100 scorer. You may choose to change or delete your profile photo it in the event you uploaded one but would prefer to remain faceless within the app and competition’s leaderboards by editing your account settings. None of your user profile data will be shared with 3rd parties under any circumstances. 

             QUARTER DATA. Each 8-month heat of the Sapphic Savvy competition features 32 weekly quarters wherein users browse the profiles of other sapphics, submit guesses about the behaviors, attitudes, and experiences of users sharing their sexual identity and age-group, wager points on their guesses being true based on average responses among those users, and report on their own corresponding behaviors, attitudes, and experiences. Quarter questions are diverse inquiring about familiar negative sapphic stereotype-related behaviors (e.g., poor health, unhealthy relationships, personal style, sexual behavior), substance use, experiences with stigma and coming out, stress-coping strategies, finances, etc. Users also have the opportunity to submit their own questions and vote on those submitted by others with those receiving the most votes featured in future quarters. After 7 days the quarter closes and users receive detailed results, an overall score, and rank among all competing users. Importantly, all results are transparently derived from the responses of the users in each sub-group who answered the week’s questions. The Sapphic Savvy app logs and stores all of your responses to quarter questions in order to calculate users’ results, scores, and ranks. All of your data from Sapphic Savvy quarters will remain private, will not be visible to other users, and will not be shared with 3rd parties under any circumstances. However, in the event you are a top 100 weekly or monthly scorer in the competition, your chosen username, round score, and profile photo will be featured in the weekly or monthly leaderboard and visible to other authenticated users. 

             SHAPE SUBMISSION & VOTING DATA. All users can help shape the competition by submitting their own ideas for questions to appear in Sapphic Savvy and/or voting for their favorite questions submitted by other users. The user-submitted questions that receive the most votes get featured in future quarters. When submitting a question, you have the choice to do so in public or private mode. If you choose public mode and your question gets featured in a quarter you will be credited as the submitter of the featured question in Sapphic Savvy’s newsletter and social media posts. If you choose private mode, we will attribute your featured question to “anonymous” in our newsletter and social media posts.

            CHAT DATA. Sapphic Savvy also contains user-led live chats organized by topic. The app’s servers store users’ posts, replies, and comments in order to facilitate discussions among users. You are represented by your username and optional profile photo when posting, replying, and commenting and this data is visible to other authenticated users. However, none of this data will be shared with 3rd parties under any circumstances. 

            MOBILE DEVICE DATA. Device information such as your mobile device ID number, model, manufacturer, and version of your operating system may be logged by our server. 

USE OF YOUR INFORMATION 

Having accurate information about you permits us to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience.  Specifically, we may use information collected about you via the Application to:

1.     Notify you in the event you win a cash prize as a top scorer 

2.     Compile anonymous statistical data and analysis for internal use.

3.     Create and manage your account.

4.     Allow you to be visible and represented to other Sapphics taking part in the community.

5.     Allow you to see how accurately you view the behaviors and attitudes of Sapphic peers. 

6.     Allow you to see how your behaviors and attitudes compare to, and are judged by Sapphic peers. 

7.     Calculate the points you win and lose each round and track your score across quarters of play. 

8.    Increase the efficiency and operation of the Application. 

9.  Monitor and analyze usage and trends to improve your experience with the Application. 

10.  Notify you of updates to the Application. 

11.  Request feedback and contact you about your use of the Application.

12.  Resolve disputes and troubleshoot problems. 

13.  Send you a monthly recap newsletter. 

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION 

Sapphic Savvy will not share any of your derivative or mobile device data with third parties. 

SECURITY OF YOUR INFORMATION 

We employ the most advanced technologies and internal protocols (layered security, https protocol, SSL certificates, TSL encryption in transit, etc.) to transmit, secure, and store and protect all Application data. These protocols safeguard privacy between communicating applications and their users on the Internet. Also used to secure bank and credit card transactions online, these protocols ensure that no third party may eavesdrop or tamper with submitted data. While we will do our part to safe guard the data you provide while using Sapphic Savvy, we also recommend that users protect their mobile devices and their Sapphic Savvy account with strong passwords and not share their login information with others.  

PUSH NOTIFICATIONS 

We will request to send you push notifications regarding your account or the Application. Push notifications may alert you to new quarters of play opening, new results being available for you to view, the leaderboard being updated, a question you submitted being featured as a question of the week, etc. If you wish to opt-out from receiving these types of communications, you may turn them off in your device’s settings as detailed later in this policy. 

POLICY FOR CHILDREN

We do not knowingly solicit information from or market to children under the age of 18. If you become aware of any data we have collected from children under age 18, please contact us using the contact information provided below. 

CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES  

Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems [and our mobile applications] include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected.  No uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online.  If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this Privacy Policy. 

OPTIONS REGARDING YOUR INFORMATION 

You can remove all of your derivative data and all but one piece of de-identified mobile device data from our servers by visiting the settings area of the app and electing to delete your account. We retain the right to keep a record of your device Id in a separate database to regulate the creation of multiple user accounts from a single device and ensure we do not invite randomly selected users to take part in the user feedback study twice in the event the created an account, enrolled in study, deleted account, then created a second account. In the event you delete your account, your de-identified device id will also be deleted at the end of Sapphic Savvy’s 32 weekly quarters. Upon your request to terminate your account, we will deactivate or delete your account and information from our active databases.  

EMAILS, TEXT MESSAGES, AND NOTIFICATIONS   

If you do not wish to receive text messages, emails, and/or push notifications from us, you may opt-out by: 

●      Text messages- typing “STOP” in response to any text message from Sapphic Savvy.

●      Emails- clicking/tapping unsubscribe at the bottom of any email from Sapphic Savvy. 

●      Push notifications- turning notifications for Sapphic Savvy off in the settings area of the app or the settings area of your mobile phone

CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS

California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the “Shine The Light” law, permits our users who are California residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, information about categories of personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared personal information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us using the contact information provided below.

CONTACT US

If you have questions or comments about Sapphic Savvy’s data privacy or terms of service please contact us at:

818-290-9940

info@sapphicsavvy.com

If you have trouble logging into Sapphic Savvy, experience technical issues with the app, or want to report a negative psychological experience associated with app use please email a description of your issue/experience along with your mobile phone number to:

support@sapphicsavvy.com

SAPPHIC SAVVY (“we” or “us” or “our”) respects the privacy of our users (“user” or “you”). This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our mobile application (the “Application”). Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY, PLEASE DO NOT ACCESS THE SAPPHIC SAVVY APPLICATION.

We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy at any time and for any reason. We will alert you about any changes by updating the “Last updated” date of this Privacy Policy.  You are encouraged to periodically review this Privacy Policy to stay informed of updates. You will be deemed to have been made aware of, will be subject to, and will be deemed to have accepted the changes in any revised Privacy Policy by your continued use of the Application after the date such revised Privacy Policy is posted. 

Note- This Privacy Policy does not apply to the third-party online/mobile store from which you install the Application. We are not responsible for any of the data collected by any such third party.

COLLECTION OF YOUR INFORMATION

We may collect information about you in a variety of ways. Much of the information collected via the Application depends on your actions and the permissions you grant or deny within the application.

DERIVATIVE DATA COLLECTED

            USER ACCOUNT DATA. Includes personally identifiable information that you voluntarily give to us when electing to create an account in Sapphic Savvy. This data includes your mobile phone number, email address, birthdate, and sexual identity, which are mandatory elements required to be eligible for top scorer prizes, personalize the competition, and format quarter screens for you. By providing your mobile phone number at signup, you grant us permission to send you a verification code via text-message. Once verified, you will use this phone number to login to the app. Additional text messages will only be sent to you in order to reset your password in the event you forget it and potentially to invite take part in a user-feedback study aimed at evaluating and improving the app (should you be randomly selected for an invite). Text messages will not be sent to you for promotional purposes nor will your phone number be shared with 3rd parties. You may opt out of text messages at any time by replying “STOP”. To be eligible for monetary prizes to be awarded to the competition’s top scorers, you must also provide a valid email address at which you can receive a prepaid virtual visa gift card. Monthly emails recapping competition results, winners, and support resources will also be sent to the email address you provide. Your email address will not be shared with 3rd parties under any circumstances. You may opt out of emails from Sapphic Savvy using the unsubscribe link provided in each. However, we will not be able to contact unsubscribed users for prize purposes and any prizes won by users we are unable to reach via email will be awarded to the next highest scorer. Neither your mobile phone number or will not be shared with 3rd parties under any circumstances. 

            PUBLIC PROFILE DATA. Your Sapphic Savvy public profile includes your chosen username, age group, sexual identity, and a profile photo of your choice. This information is mandatory as it is used to format quarter screens and customize questions to ask you specific sub-groups of users (e.g., questions ask lesbians in their 20’s about other lesbian users in their 20s). You may also choose to share your location in the US, be represented by a brief bio, and/or additional tags to describe you. All of the information you provide in your public profile will be visible to other authenticated users in the Sapphics area of the application and the photos and public profiles of other users will similarly be visible to you in this area. The image you upload to represent you can be a photograph of yourself, a bitmoji, a pet, whatever you wish. This photo will be shown in the competition’s leaderboard alongside your username and score in the event you are a top 100 scorer. You may choose to change or delete your profile photo it in the event you uploaded one but would prefer to remain faceless within the app and competition’s leaderboards by editing your account settings. None of your user profile data will be shared with 3rd parties under any circumstances. 

             QUARTER DATA. Each 8-month heat of the Sapphic Savvy competition features 32 weekly quarters wherein users browse the profiles of other sapphics, submit guesses about the behaviors, attitudes, and experiences of users sharing their sexual identity and age-group, wager points on their guesses being true based on average responses among those users, and report on their own corresponding behaviors, attitudes, and experiences. Quarter questions are diverse inquiring about familiar negative sapphic stereotype-related behaviors (e.g., poor health, unhealthy relationships, personal style, sexual behavior), substance use, experiences with stigma and coming out, stress-coping strategies, finances, etc. Users also have the opportunity to submit their own questions and vote on those submitted by others with those receiving the most votes featured in future quarters. After 7 days the quarter closes and users receive detailed results, an overall score, and rank among all competing users. Importantly, all results are transparently derived from the responses of the users in each sub-group who answered the week’s questions. The Sapphic Savvy app logs and stores all of your responses to quarter questions in order to calculate users’ results, scores, and ranks. All of your data from Sapphic Savvy quarters will remain private, will not be visible to other users, and will not be shared with 3rd parties under any circumstances. However, in the event you are a top 100 weekly or monthly scorer in the competition, your chosen username, round score, and profile photo will be featured in the weekly or monthly leaderboard and visible to other authenticated users. 

             SHAPE DATA. All users can help shape the competition by submitting their own ideas for questions to appear in Sapphic Savvy and/or voting for their favorite questions submitted by other users. The user-submitted questions that receive the most votes get featured in future quarters. When submitting a question, you have the choice to do so in public or private mode. If you choose public mode and your question gets featured in a quarter you will be credited as the submitter of the featured question in Sapphic Savvy’s newsletter and social media posts. If you choose private mode, we will attribute your featured question to “anonymous” in our newsletter and social media posts.

            CHAT DATA. Sapphic Savvy also contains user-led live chats organized by topic. The app’s servers store users’ posts, replies, and comments in order to facilitate discussions among users. You are represented by your username and optional profile photo when posting, replying, and commenting and this data is visible to other authenticated users. However, none of this data will be shared with 3rd parties under any circumstances. 

            MOBILE DEVICE DATA. Device information such as your mobile device ID number, model, manufacturer, and version of your operating system may be logged by our server. 

USE OF YOUR INFORMATION 

Having accurate information about you permits us to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience.  Specifically, we may use information collected about you via the Application to:

1.     Notify you in the event you win a cash prize as a top scorer 

2.     Compile anonymous statistical data and analysis for internal use.

3.     Create and manage your account.

4.     Allow you to be visible and represented to other Sapphics taking part in the community.

5.     Allow you to see how accurately you view the behaviors and attitudes of Sapphic peers. 

6.     Allow you to see how your behaviors and attitudes compare to, and are judged by Sapphic peers. 

7.     Calculate the points you win and lose each round and track your score across quarters of play. 

8.    Increase the efficiency and operation of the Application. 

9.  Monitor and analyze usage and trends to improve your experience with the Application. 

10.  Notify you of updates to the Application. 

11.  Request feedback and contact you about your use of the Application.

12.  Resolve disputes and troubleshoot problems. 

13.  Send you a monthly recap newsletter. 

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION 

Sapphic Savvy will not share any of your derivative or mobile device data with third parties. 

SECURITY OF YOUR INFORMATION 

We employ the most advanced technologies and internal protocols (layered security, https protocol, SSL certificates, TSL encryption in transit, etc.) to transmit, secure, and store and protect all Application data. These protocols safeguard privacy between communicating applications and their users on the Internet. Also used to secure bank and credit card transactions online, these protocols ensure that no third party may eavesdrop or tamper with submitted data. While we will do our part to safe guard the data you provide while using Sapphic Savvy, we also recommend that users protect their mobile devices and their Sapphic Savvy account with strong passwords and not share their login information with others.  

PUSH NOTIFICATIONS 

We will request to send you push notifications regarding your account or the Application. Push notifications may alert you to new quarters of play opening, new results being available for you to view, the leaderboard being updated, a question you submitted being featured as a question of the week, etc. If you wish to opt-out from receiving these types of communications, you may turn them off in your device’s settings as detailed later in this policy. 

POLICY FOR CHILDREN

We do not knowingly solicit information from or market to children under the age of 18. If you become aware of any data we have collected from children under age 18, please contact us using the contact information provided below. 

CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES  

Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems [and our mobile applications] include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected.  No uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online.  If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this Privacy Policy. 

OPTIONS REGARDING YOUR INFORMATION 

You can remove all of your derivative data and all but one piece of de-identified mobile device data from our servers by visiting the settings area of the app and electing to delete your account. We retain the right to keep a record of your device Id in a separate database to regulate the creation of multiple user accounts from a single device and ensure we do not invite randomly selected users to take part in the user feedback study twice in the event the created an account, enrolled in study, deleted account, then created a second account. In the event you delete your account, your de-identified device id will also be deleted at the end of Sapphic Savvy’s 32 weekly quarters. Upon your request to terminate your account, we will deactivate or delete your account and information from our active databases.  

EMAILS, TEXT MESSAGES, AND NOTIFICATIONS   

If you do not wish to receive text messages, emails, and/or push notifications from us, you may opt-out by: 

●      Text messages- typing “STOP” in response to any text message from Sapphic Savvy.

●      Emails- clicking/tapping unsubscribe at the bottom of any email from Sapphic Savvy. 

●      Push notifications- turning notifications for Sapphic Savvy off in the settings area of the app or the settings area of your mobile phone

CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS

California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the “Shine The Light” law, permits our users who are California residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, information about categories of personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared personal information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us using the contact information provided below.

CONTACT US

If you have questions or comments about Sapphic Savvy’s data privacy or terms of service please contact us at:

818-290-9940

info@sapphicsavvy.com

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